The TANC project is not dead. With state mandates and federal monies, a new Transmission Agency of Northern California line will be built in the future.

More electric transmission is probably needed now; a brownout would restart the process. Now that it”s stalled, let”s look at an alternative to our valley. There exists a hundred mile-long, unbroken right-of-way running from Red Bluff to Solano County. It is the federal-owned Tehama Colusa Canal. It”s Homeland Security protected, no environmental impacts, no property taken. Towers can be designed to straddle the canal. If the state and feds want the line, that”s where to put it.

The canal right-of-way could also contain upward of 50 million square feet of solar panels. Let big money use their heads, not their muscle. Push this alternative for the betterment of us all. Keep them away from our precious growing land.